Drop in to Prittlewell Priory to explore Christmas traditions, from what the Monks got up to, why mince pies were rectangular in Tudor times and how Victorian festivities lay the foundations for our celebrations today.

Archaeologists who saw a crowd of stones sticking out of eroding peat at a nature reserve say they have retrieved 1,500 pieces of a Stone Age campsite, ranging from Mesolithic objects to industrial waste flakes.

Experts in York have carried out "exciting" tests to find out when and why people drank milk thousands of years ago, admitting the discovery of whey protein on human dental calculus seemed "too good to be true".